Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-28
THE WEST.

account of two disreputable women
| THE WEST.
FURTHER attempts will be made to en-
| force the Sunday law in st. Louis
| A SALOON at Paramount, Ind, was re-
Gently blown up with dynamite. The in
| habitants were opposed to liquor selling.
| QUEEN KAPIoLANI, of the Sandwich
| islands, reached San Francisco on the 18th.
| A BOAT in which were Ernst Berent and
his two brothers, while trying to cross the
river at Wlnona, Mimi, the other day, was
struck by the cable OF ferry boat and cap
| sized The two brothers reached the shore IN
safety, but Ernst, who chung to the cable,
| was drawn under the water as it sunk and
was drowned.
| DAVID L. WEIGHrMAN, secretary OF the
Cleveland (O) Humane Society, died re-
Gently, aged seventy.
The intense heat caused the death Of
| $50 persons in Chicago in two days ended
July Is. Forty or fifty persons died in st.
Louis during the same time. Thlrty-one
deaths were reported on the 18th in Phila-
delphia and twenty-one IN Cincinnati In
Pittsburgh the death list was heavy and
the mortality in many other places was I'M
precedented.
TROUBLE was reported between cowboys
and the Utes of Southeast Utah. One cow
boy was found shot dead and fears were
IN that section of the Territory.
FRANK FULLER, of Portland, Ore, has
given himself up for numbering Catholic
Bishop Zeighers on the Yukon river, Alas
ka. The Bishop was missionary to the Gu
nalaska Indians and Fuller was his COM
Pr Mon. No cause for the crime was known.
THE st. Anthony elevator, Minneapolis,
Mimi, one of the largest in the Northwest,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss on
ht1iId IN in
$S25, 600; insurance not known.
ED. CoRRIGAN, the horseman, was ruled
off the track at Chicago recently, owing to
dispute with the judges.
A MOB at Wilkinson, Hancock County,
Ind, destroyed the saloon of William Will
son recently.
The third annual convention of the Ma
tional Railway Station Agents Associa
tion began at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
Goth.
A CONFERENCE Of passenger agents at
Chicago recently decided on having the
irregular tickets issued from Boston re-
deemed forthwith.
FURTHER cuts in freight rates to points in
Texas were made in St. Louis on the Doth
The cuts were led by the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe.
A ''HAIL CYCLONE" was reported recently
as having passed through the country near
Wabash, Ind. The heavy hail stones cut
swath two or three miles wide for aSonsid-
cradle distance, destroying every thing.
ANDREW WILLIAMS and Robert West
were killed and Robert Williams fatally in
jured by a tree falling on their buggy the
other afternoon, fifteen miles south of
Terre Haute, Ind, as they were returning
from funeral.
Four persons were fatally and seriously
injured during recent Wild West perform
ance at Clinton, Iowa, owing to one of the
cowboys pistols being loaded with bullets
by some mistake.
SOME good rains fell in Western Missouri
and Eastern and Central Kansas on the 10Th
and Goth, breaking the drouth which at the
time threatened serious consequences.
THE Ohio Democrats, in convention at
Cleveland on the 21st nominated Thomas
E. Powell, of Delaware County, for Cover
nor. Lieutenant Governor, D. C. Goldman.
of Portage; for Judge OF the Supreme
Holmes, and for Judge, short term, Virgil
P. Kline, of Cleveland; Auditor of State,
Joseph G. Curley; Treasurer George W.
Harper; Attorney-General, William S.
Leet; Member of Board of Public Works,
Peter s. Murphy.
The powder houslAof the Chicago Coal
Company exploded at Streetor, ILL.,, recent
ly, being struck by lightning. Forty-five
dwellings were destroyed and several per-
sons were fatally and seriously injured.
GAMBRINCs Assembly, Knights of Labor,
Milwaukee, Wis, has withdrawn from the
order on account of Powderly's temperance
procliyities